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Re: What are you reading? (continued)

Originally Posted by Evil Queen

The Talisman

I picked up Black House on sale and did not realize it was the follow up to the Talisman. I just finished Black House (enjoyed it, after the slow start), now I have The Talisman on my reading list for the near future. For some reason, I think I started this book years ago, and put it down and never got back to it. But I do not remember any details, which means I did not get very far.

Re: What are you reading? (continued)

I changed my mind about reading "Double Feature", and jumped into "11/22/63" first. After Ambrose's non-fiction account of "6/6/44" (a watershed moment if ever there was one!), it was a perfect switch into reading SK's fictional account of Kennedy's assassination. I loved the storyline and falling back into that era was a pleasure. The language, the culture, the history...I dug it all, and SK renders it beautifully in this novel. We went camping this last weekend, and thanks to some rainy, cold weather, I finished the last half of the book in record time (for me!) It's been awhile since I have read SK, so I was definitely ready for this one. It lived up to it's billing, and then some! I was interested to read in the afterword that Joe Hill thought up a "new and better" ending, because I thought the ending was PERFECT. Once I got to where I only had a couple hundred pages left to read, I had to fight with myself not to skip to the last few pages and read (a nasty habit I indulge in occasionally), and I was so glad that I didn't do that. It made the ending all that much better for me. Until next time, happy reading...

Re: What are you reading? (continued)

Reading Blind Date by R.L. Stine. It seems though that everyone's reading The Talisman. Don't know why but is there something I should know about that I'm missing? Although I'm gonna continue on it next week, I have too many books to read right now. And finals are coming up really fast. So that makes it double the effort.

Re: What are you reading? (continued)

Originally Posted by Shasta

Gaiman is a favorite on the board. My personal favorite is Neverwhere. I read it at least once a year.

OK, Shasta, this is where we differ! I have read Stardust and The Graveyard Book, both very appealing in outline to me, but found them both boring and not very well written. I just knew we couldn't agree on everything!

Re: What are you reading? (continued)

Originally Posted by carrie's younger brother

OK, Shasta, this is where we differ! I have read Stardust and The Graveyard Book, both very appealing in outline to me, but found them both boring and not very well written. I just knew we couldn't agree on everything!

Re: What are you reading? (continued)

Got my copy of I Travel by Night by R. McCammon in the mail yesterday and J. Kellerman's Guilt is wending it's way through the county to me and wouldn't you know I have developed the worst case of floaters in my right eye!!